Project management software turns work into tasks, boards, timelines and issues, and shows who is doing what by when. The best-known tools, Jira, Trello and Asana, come from Australian and US companies. Teams in Europe pick a European vendor to keep project data in European data centres and under European law, and some want software they can run on their own servers. The strongest European options are OpenProject (Germany) for teams that want planning software they can self-host, YouTrack (Netherlands) for software teams that want a Jira-style tracker and MeisterTask (Austria) for teams that want simple boards with EU hosting.
Best first. Headcount and founding year come from LeadWave's database; prices, hosting and G2 ratings from each company's own pages and G2, checked in November 2026.
| Alternative | Headquarters | Founded | Employees | G2 rating | Free plan | Paid plans from | Your data | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 OpenProject | Berlin, Germany | — | — | 3.8 (26 reviews) | Yes | €5.95/user/month | In Europe | Yes |
2 YouTrack | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2000 | 1,247 | 4.2 (60 reviews) | Yes | $4.50/user/month | In Europe | No |
3 MeisterTask | Vienna, Austria | 2006 | — | 4.6 (173 reviews) | Yes | $7/user/month | In Europe | No |
4 awork | Hamburg, Germany | — | — | 4.3 (27 reviews) | No | €5/user/month | In Europe | No |
5 Teamwork.com | Cork, Ireland | 2007 | 343 | 4.4 (1,207 reviews) | Yes | $9.99/user/month | EU region available | No |
6 Zenkit | Karlsruhe, Germany | 2016 | 11–50 | 4.7 (97 reviews) | No | €8/user/month | In Europe | No |
7 Stackfield | Munich, Germany | 2012 | — | 4.3 (14 reviews) | No | €9/user/month | In Europe | No |
8 Taiga | Vigo, Spain | 2014 | 9 | 4.4 (74 reviews) | Yes | €5/account/month | In Europe | Yes |
9 Easy8 | Prague, Czech Republic | 2006 | — | 4.3 (29 reviews) | No | €6.90/user/month | In Europe | No |
10 Businessmap | Sofia, Bulgaria | 2011 | 36 | — | No | — | In Europe | No |
11 Teamhood | Vilnius, Lithuania | 2019 | 11–50 | 4.7 (64 reviews) | No | €11/user/month | In Europe | No |
12 factro | Bochum, Germany | 1994 | — | — | Yes | €19.99/user/month | In Europe | No |
13 Tuleap | Chambéry, France | 2011 | — | 4.3 (20 reviews) | Yes | Free | In Europe | Yes |
14 Planio | Berlin, Germany | 2010 | 1–10 | 4.4 (19 reviews) | Yes | €19/account/month | In Europe | No |
15 Productive | Zagreb, Croatia | 2014 | 35 | 4.7 (65 reviews) | No | €9.50/user/month | — | No |
16 Nozbe | Gdynia, Poland | 2007 | 14 | 4.6 (36 reviews) | Yes | $9/user/month | In Europe | No |
17 Superthread | United Kingdom | 2020 | 15 | 4.6 (36 reviews) | Yes | $3/user/month | In Europe | No |
18 Kanban Tool | Katowice, Poland | 2009 | — | 4.7 (40 reviews) | Yes | €6/user/month | Self-hosted | No |
19 KanbanFlow | Gothenburg, Sweden | 2011 | — | 4.3 (32 reviews) | Yes | $5/user/month | — | No |
20 PLANKA | Kempten, Germany | 2024 | — | — | Yes | €7.20/user/month | In Europe | No |
21 Vikunja | Lübeck, Germany | — | — | — | Yes | €4/account/month | In Europe | Yes |
22 Paymo | Oradea, Romania | 2007 | 24 | 4.6 (595 reviews) | Yes | $9.90/account/month | — | No |
Each page ranks the European options for that tool's users and says how each one compares.
Open-source project management, cloud or self-hosted
Open-source project management with Gantt charts, agile boards, work packages, time tracking and wikis. The Community edition is free to self-host; paid plans add enterprise features, support and EU cloud hosting.
JetBrains issue tracker with agile boards and help desk
Issue tracking, agile boards, a knowledge base and a help desk from JetBrains, free for up to 10 users. Runs in JetBrains' cloud, with EU data centres to choose from, or on your own server.
Kanban task management hosted in Germany
Board-based task and project management from Meister, the maker of MindMeister, with automations, time tracking and reports. Data is hosted in Germany. A free plan covers up to 3 projects.
Project, workload and time planning for agencies
Work management for agencies and service teams: tasks, project timelines, team workload planning and time tracking. Hosted in Frankfurt, with importers for Asana, monday.com and Jira.
Project management and time tracking for client work
Project management for agencies and service teams that bill clients: tasks, Gantt and board views, time tracking, budgets and resource planning. Accounts can be hosted in the US or the EU.
Tasks as boards, lists, Gantt or calendar
Project management from Karlsruhe that shows the same tasks as kanban boards, lists, Gantt charts or calendars, with team chat built in. Data is hosted on AWS in Frankfurt.
Encrypted team chat, tasks and documents in one workspace
A collaboration workspace that combines team chat, task boards, documents and video calls, with end-to-end encryption available. Data is stored in German data centres; an on-premise edition exists.
Open-source scrum and kanban for agile teams
Open-source agile project management with backlogs, sprints, kanban boards, epics and issues. It can be self-hosted for free; the hosted cloud runs in a Madrid data centre and is priced per account.
Redmine-based project management, cloud or on-premises
Formerly Easy Redmine: project management built on Redmine, with agile boards, Gantt charts, resource planning, time tracking and a help desk. Runs on-premises or in an EU cloud; cloud plans need 10+ users.
Kanban and portfolio management for larger organisations
Kanban-based work and portfolio management, formerly called Kanbanize: multi-level boards, OKRs, flow metrics, automation rules and Jira sync. Sold as one plan through sales. EU customers' data is stored in Dublin or Frankfurt.
Kanban, Gantt and workload planning for project teams
Project and portfolio management that combines kanban boards, Gantt timelines and workload views across many projects. One paid plan, minimum three users, hosted on Microsoft Azure in EU regions.
German project and task management for SMEs
Cloud project management from a Bochum consultancy: project structure plans, Gantt charts, Kanban boards and task lists. Data is stored in a German data centre. The interface and support are German-first.
Open-source ALM: trackers, agile, requirements and tests
Open-source application lifecycle management from Enalean: configurable trackers, scrum and kanban, requirements, test management and Git. Runs on-premises or in Enalean's cloud in French data centres. Aimed at regulated engineering teams.
Hosted Redmine with Git, help desk and team chat
A managed version of the open-source Redmine issue tracker, with Git and Subversion hosting, a help desk, wikis and time tracking. Data sits in German data centres. Plans are priced per account, not per user.
Projects, budgets and resourcing for agencies
Agency and consultancy platform that combines projects and tasks with time tracking, resource planning, budgets and invoicing. Run from Zagreb; the contracting entity is a Delaware company.
Team task manager with built-in task discussions
Task and project app for small teams, built around shared projects and comment threads on each task instead of email. Data sits on Hetzner servers in Germany.
Boards, sprints and docs with pay-what-you-want pricing
Project management with boards, sprints, docs and AI agents in one workspace, hosted in London. Small teams choose their own price per user.
Kanban boards with time tracking and analytics
Online kanban boards with time tracking, process automation and board analytics. A free plan covers 2 boards and 2 users, and an on-site edition can run on your own server.
Kanban boards with a built-in Pomodoro timer
Web-based kanban boards with swimlanes, WIP limits, subtasks and time tracking, including a Pomodoro timer. Made by CodeKick AB, a small Swedish company.
Self-hosted kanban boards, Trello-style
Kanban boards in the style of Trello that teams run on their own server, or as a dedicated instance hosted in Germany. The free Community edition is source-available, not OSI open source.
Open-source task manager with lists, kanban and Gantt
Open-source task and project manager with list, kanban, Gantt and table views. Free to self-host; Vikunja Cloud is a paid hosted version run by a one-person German business.
Tasks, time tracking and invoicing for small teams
Project management for small agencies and freelancers that combines tasks, kanban and Gantt views with time tracking, resource scheduling and client invoicing.
LeadWave's database has 80 companies headquartered in Europe that our Project Management list matches, most of them in the United Kingdom (17), Germany (8), France (6), Spain (6) and Estonia (4). Here are the 15 largest; all 80, with their CEOs' contacts, are in the Europe SaaS companies list.
| Company | Country | Employees | Funding | CEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 PlanRadarplanradar.com | Austria | 203 | $60.6M | Ibrahim Imam |
2 Newformanewforma.com | United Kingdom | 146 | $25.1M | Brock Philp |
3 Toggltoggl.com | Estonia | 130 | — | Alari Aho |
4 Conceptboardconceptboard.com | Germany | 51–200 | — | Helmut Schmitz |
5 Fieldlyfieldly.com | Sweden | 49 | $9.6M | Sven Paulin |
6 Naptanapta.io | France | 43 | $1.1M | Arnaud Caldichoury |
| 7Businessmapbusinessmap.io | Bulgaria | 36 | $729.7K | Dimitar Karaivanov |
8 Graphygraphyapp.com | United Kingdom | 34 | — | Andrey Vinitsky |
9 ITM Platformitmplatform.com | Spain | 11–50 | $484.7K | Daniel Piret |
| 10Teamhoodteamhood.com | Lithuania | 11–50 | $440 | Vidas Vasiliauskas |
11 Bryntumbryntum.com | Sweden | 11–50 | — | Mats Bryntse |
12 CO3appco3app.com | Romania | 11–50 | — | Tamás Gál |
13 Deployeddeployed.co | United Kingdom | 11–50 | — | Emma Rees |
14 e2time.come2time.com | France | 11–50 | — | Didier Lalo |
15 EIDA Solutionseidasolutions.com | Ireland | 11–50 | — | Dan McAlister |
Showing the 15 largest of 80. Headcount is the latest known figure.
A company counts as European if it's headquartered in Europe: the EU, the EEA, Switzerland, the UK, or elsewhere in geographic Europe, never Russia or Belarus. Headquarters means where it's run from, not a registered office. Companies founded in Europe but headquartered elsewhere today are listed separately, and a non-European owner is always named.
Each company was checked against its own legal notice, pricing page and data-processing terms, and its G2 page. The order weighs how fully each one replaces the US leaders, its track record and its ratings. No company paid to be listed or ranked.
OpenProject (Germany) for teams that want planning software they can self-host, YouTrack (Netherlands) for software teams that want a Jira-style tracker and MeisterTask (Austria) for teams that want simple boards with EU hosting. Each is headquartered in Europe; the table compares their hosting, prices and G2 ratings.
OpenProject, YouTrack, MeisterTask, Teamwork.com, Taiga, factro, Tuleap, Planio, Nozbe, Superthread, Kanban Tool, KanbanFlow, PLANKA, Vikunja and Paymo have a free plan with no time limit.
OpenProject, YouTrack, MeisterTask, awork, Zenkit, Stackfield, Taiga, Easy8, Businessmap, Teamhood, factro, Tuleap, Planio, Nozbe, Superthread, PLANKA and Vikunja store customer data in Europe by default. Being European doesn't make a tool GDPR compliant on its own: check its data processing agreement too.
Yes: OpenProject, Taiga, Tuleap and Vikunja, which you can also host on your own servers.
LeadWave's database lists 80 European Project Management software companies, most of them in United Kingdom (17) and Germany (8). All of them, with their CEOs' contacts, are in our list of 4,000+ European SaaS companies.
We count a vendor as European when the company is run from Europe: the EU, the EEA, Switzerland, the UK or elsewhere in geographic Europe, never Russia or Belarus. A registered office alone doesn't count, and we name any owner from outside Europe.
OpenProject, Taiga, Tuleap and Vikunja are open source and free to self-host. YouTrack, Easy8, Stackfield and Kanban Tool sell on-premises editions, and PLANKA's source-available Community edition runs on your own server.
MeisterTask, awork, Zenkit, Stackfield, factro, Planio and Nozbe store data in Germany, Taiga's cloud runs in Madrid and Wimi's in France. Teamwork.com and YouTrack let you pick an EU region instead of the US.
